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In message <d93-cwi.855655658@nada.kth.se> - d93-cwi@nada.kth.se
(Calle Wilund)11 Feb 97 10:07:38 GMT writes:
:>
:>In <5dklaf$o4m@phaedrus.kralizec.net.au> alstern@ibm.net (Alan Stern) writes:
:>
:>>I am trying to set up a parallel cable network between my desktop & laptop.
:>>After days of experimenting, my main problem is that during boot-up I get the
:>>message "A value specified in PROTOCOL.INI is not valid.
:>>             IOPORT = 888 (0x378)
:>>             A failure during initialization has occurred"
:>
:>>0x378 is the address of the lpt port I am using (with irq 7).
:>>The protocol.ini file is created by the MPTS program and writes the line that
:>>the bombs out !!!!
:>
:>>Any help suggestions etc. would be appreciated.
:>
:>It's a stupid error in the docs. If you use LPT1, you can leave the field out,
:>as it will default to it anyway, otherwise you should edit it to
:>IOPORT = LPTx
:>
:>were x is the parallel port number.
:>
:>Really stupid actually, since the install program also nags if you don't enter
:>a numerical value, but the driver itself won't work with it, but the text 
:>version. Oh, well.
:>

Thank you !! Thank you !!! .. That solved the problem .. Network
now established. Thank you again

Alan Stern
alstern@ibm.net